Consumers Energy says 24,000 customers statewide experienced an interruption in their electric service since 8 p.m. Monday. By 8 a.m. Tuesday, 11,500 were without power.

In Midland County, as of 8 a.m., there were 925 without power. Meridian Public Schools is closed today due to the outages. Many occurred around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday in an area between Sanford and Hope, in Larkin Township on East Hubbard Road and near the Midland/Bay county line. By about 8:30 a.m., the number was cut to 167.

Wind gusts gained from about 20 mph at 6 p.m. Monday and topped 34 mph near midnight, according to Weather Underground. Gusts didn’t die down until after 3 a.m., still blowing around 17 mph.

There were more than 1,200 without power in Clare County and 434 without in Bay County.

Outages were reported in at least 35 counties across the state for both Consumers Energy and DTE Energy customers.

“It’s fairly safe to assume that these are all due to the weather that passed overnight,” said Terry DeDoes, Consumers Energy spokesperson.

DeDoes said the utility is working to have power restored statewide by 11 p.m. today.